This place is cool, contemporary, and not too intimidating for a hotel that has rooms running over $500. People watching here on a warm summer weekend night is perfectly complemented by great interior design, plush sofas to plop down in and within close proximity to the hotel bar and restaurant (Zimzala), so you can get away with looking like a patron taking a breather. If you play it cool, you can spend well over an hour lounging around and off the radar of the friendly, yet consumately professional staff and security.

If you get lucky, you may spot a celebrity or possibly meet the person of your dreams, even if you are not theirs (you freeloading bum), in the Shorebreak Hotel lobby.

Transformed from a run down beach side motel into an eclectic boutique establishment that dreams of surfing. The Huntington Beach Surf Inn was saved by the mighty hand of Nike during the 2010 US Open of Surfing Huntington Beach and never turned back. Fun place to stay IF you can actually get a room.

Our crew has frequented this establishment for well over a decade and consider it a second home in Huntington Beach. Sure there are fancier hotels nearby with more services and amenities that one could ever even deem necessary but the Sun n Sands Motel is a vital part of Surf City history.

Huntington Beach is a beach town through and through. One of the main staples of any such town is the roadside motel where you pull over after a long drive and pray that the "No" light is turned off, so all that your weary eyes read is "Vacancy". Such a motel doesn't care what you wear or what you do for a living. It's just there for those looking for a mellow place to lay their hat and a door mat a mere meters from the sand and surf. Its a place where families go and remember fondly when they finger through seashell decorated photo albums years later. All that these motels ask of you is that you shake the sand off your feet outside before putting them up on the bed to sleep for the night. They used to be lined up along Huntington Beach's stretch of Pacific Coast Highway, but over the years, one by one, the little beach motels were bought up and torn down to make room for 3 story condos, boutique shops, eateries, and resorts.

The Sun n Sands Motel is one of the last remaining icons of the era. We shudder to think that one day we will be driving up PCH with the view of the Pier landmarking the fact that we are close to "home", only to find large wire fencing and the head of a bulldozer peeking out from above, accompanied by a large bright wooden sign saying "Blah Blah Blah Coming soon". Its a mournful inevitablity. So until that time, in what we only hope is the far off distant future, you can find us every year at some point between the months of July and October, cars parked in the Sun n Sands lot sharing stories of the mornings surf. You should do the same before the opportunity passes into oblivion.